RepublicanHouse · Alabama District 1
Edwards, Jack
1965 first electedLeft office 198520 years servedBorn 1928M
Issues
Based on bills Edwards, Jack sponsored or cosponsored in Congress, grouped by policy area. This reflects legislative activity, not a survey of personal opinions.
International Affairs
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 12- A bill to prohibit, except in cases of extreme emergency, assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to any country which does not make reasonable and productive efforts, especially with regard to family planning, designed to alleviate the causes of the need for assistance provided under such Act. ↗
- A resolution to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the leaders of the Government of Iran are violating the basic human rights of the people of Iran with the continued use of revolutionary justice and to denounce the summary trial and execution of industrialist Habib Elghanian on account of his contacts with Israel and his religious beliefs. ↗
Taxation
Sponsored 10 · Cosponsored 2Economics and Public Finance
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 8- A bill to limit the growth rate of Federal spending. ↗
- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency; and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt. ↗
Arts, Culture, Religion
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 8- A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to the offering of prayer in public buildings. ↗
- A resolution congratulating the Order of the Sons of Italy in America for their seventy-fifth anniversary and wishing the Order of the Sons of Italy in America success in future years. ↗
Government Operations and Politics
Sponsored 5 · Cosponsored 3Congress
Sponsored 1 · Cosponsored 7Labor and Employment
Sponsored 5Immigration
Cosponsored 5- A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should revoke the visas of aliens arrested for certain violent or illegal activities, and that the Attorney General should order the deportation of such aliens. ↗
- A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Attorney General should immediately revoke all student visas held by citizens of Iran who have engaged in activities prejudicial to the public interest of the United States. ↗
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